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      <title><![CDATA[Reviewing AI-Written Code with CodeRabbit]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ticking Boxes, Shipping Models]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Doctolib ticks the health-data compliance boxes with US clouds and models. For now, its public promises say more than its documents show.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your LLM No Longer Reads Every Token: 8 Attention Designs Explained]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Skill Issue]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mistral can build the model. Does it know how to launch one?. On October 6th, 2026, Mistral opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4, “very officially: le…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fine-Tuning Qwen3.5-9B on Crusoe Intelligence Foundry: from 70% to 91% for $0.12]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kolibri Is Large Enough]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[American chips, Chinese teachers, about $3 million for the training run. What Germany's new open model adds is eligibility.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Eight Changes to Transformer Attention, and What Each Costs]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The newest open models from Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek and Z.AI no longer read every earlier token. Eight designs, what each costs, and what to test.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[An Act of God, With Letterhead]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Oracle reportedly called its power problem an act of God. Its annual report had already listed it.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vent Mauvais]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Verlaine's ill wind carries the leaf where it will. States bought Mistral without a tender; where free choice can be measured, it goes elsewhere.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[At Least 45 Days]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Almost every model on Bedrock gets six months' notice before it can be pulled. The one Washington just accused gets 45 days, and no stated reason.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Selective Availability]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three agencies advised American AI providers to degrade answers for accounts they suspect of malicious distillation, subtly enough to “avoid triggering…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Cache Is the Price]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Routing a job to a cheaper model looks like free money. Whether it is depends on how the frontier bills the handover.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Event Horizon]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nobody could pay to keep Hugging Face neutral. Nvidia is paying to own it. Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face for $12.9bn.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Host Pays the Empire]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI data centers are the foreign bases of the US–China tech rivalry, except that the host now pays the rent.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Let an AI Agent Loose on Postgres, Safely: Claude Code + Ghost]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Watcher Is the Product]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[DeepSeek gave the agent harness away. OpenAI is taxing itself to watch its own. SpaceX paid $60 billion for one. All three just told you where the value went.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Model Is the Machine]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AMD just bought a chip company whose product runs exactly one model. That is the point.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[From Google Brain to Google Drain]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[What six weeks of exits say about the model Google hasn't shipped. Nine months ago, Google's redemption arc looked complete.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[You Have To Ask Me Nicely]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[OVH told Canada how to get the data it refused to hand over. On August 18, the European Union stops making the argument OVH is making in court.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Amazon Priced the Frontier and Declined It]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[On 30 June, AWS published two announcements pointing in opposite directions. In July, it closed its AGI Lab. All three were the same decision.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Model Is a Checkpoint]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Washington spent last week letting it be known it might ban Chinese AI models, so this week, everyone is an open-models expert.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Qwen 3.8: Soon Is Not a Date]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Alibaba answers Moonshot's dated gap with an undated one. On Sunday morning, three days after Kimi K3 launched and eight days before its weights are due…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kimi K3 and the Checkpoint Gap]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How to read a Chinese frontier launch in the eleven days before the weights ship]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Backstop Has a Name Now - part 2]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How Nvidia finances a cloud tells you what it thinks the cloud is worth. CoreWeave and Nebius got equity. Sharon AI got a revenue-share.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Backstop Has a Name Now - part 1]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nvidia is handing back tens of billions to shareholders. Now it's offering to finance the customers who can't afford its chips.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Models That Learned Physics]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Generative AI isn't just chatbots and code. The transformer architecture has quietly generalized far past language, and the next domain it's reaching is the…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Too Dangerous for You, Free for Everyone]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[America locked up its best models. Europe regulates a frontier it can't build. China gives its best to the world and is winning.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Two Laws, One Dependence]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Europe moved twice on cloud sovereignty this month. One proposal makes the American duopoly easier to move within.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Independent or Current]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Europe built the most ambitious AI enforcer in the world. It still has to ask the labs how to grade them.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Anthropic's Model Got Pulled. The Dangerous Ones Didn't.]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A US export order pulled Anthropic's best model from every customer on earth in one evening. The thousands of models built to refuse nothing stayed online.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cash Flow Lends. Valuation Doesn't.]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three borrowers, three answers, seventy-two hours. The AI debt boom did not slow down last week. It got priced.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nvidia Won the Cloud. Now It Wants the Laptop.]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nvidia's new laptop chip trails Apple where it counts and it was built to win anyway.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Macron Said Confirmed. SoftBank Said Up To.]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The €93 billion headline is mostly one company's pledge. The pledge is mostly a ceiling. The balance sheet beneath it is the most concentrated in AI.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Amendments Were Whispered]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A deputy in the president's own party admitted who wrote his amendments. The moat just confessed.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two hyperscalers bet on custom AI silicon a decade ago. One built a chip that its own models run on.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new “scaling law” reframes the chip race from space to time. The export-control wall was built to deny the first. It has no answer for the second.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[How Mistral is trying to convert a perishable contact list into permanent law. On May 12, in a near-empty hearing room of the French National Assembly, Arthur…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Strikeout. Three rare earth tests for Beijing. The summit answered no to each. November 10 is on the calendar.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Below the Silicon]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Trump flies to Beijing on Wednesday. Here's the recipe his hosts control, element by element.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The $500 Billion Umbrella]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[OpenAI called it the largest infrastructure project in history. Now they call it an umbrella.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Four hyperscalers reported $700 billion in combined AI infrastructure spending. The number that matters is how much of their reported AI revenue is their own investment coming home.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Simplify Up, Enforce Down]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[The EU spent five months simplifying the AI Act for the companies it can reach. Last night, after twelve hours, those negotiations failed.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sovereignty forces a different stack. The Commission's framework prices neither the cost nor the exit it delivers.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[The European Commission awarded €180 million under a framework that scores legal sovereignty at ten percent — and didn't see what an Ontario court had just done.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jensen Huang said the quiet part out loud on April 15. Amazon just priced it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Jensen Huang said the quiet part out loud. The market is misreading what he said.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The HAI Numbers Moved — What It Means]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Five shifts in Stanford's 2026 AI Index. Here are the forces behind them.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Claude Code wants you to do one thing at a time. Real engineering doesn't work that way.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[The GPU ate the AI narrative. The CPU kept doing the work.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Chinese proliferation, trivial alignment removal, and the week the safety moat didn't hold.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[The AI industry's most expensive assets depreciate faster than anything in corporate history. The accounting rules haven't noticed.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What to Buy for Local LLMs (April 2026)]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[A practitioner's guide to inference and training, why they're not the same machine, and why you may still need cloud]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[NVIDIA built the world's most profitable hardware company by treating its consumer GPUs as a recruitment pipeline. Now many recruits are buying Macs.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Smaller, cheaper, open — and the base layer is up for grabs.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Six domains where China's deployment record contradicts the restriction narrative.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Small Modular Reactors, Hyperscalers, and the Distance Between a Press Release and a Megawatt]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reverse-Engineering The Apollo 11 Code with AI]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[The complete walkthrough — 8 modules, 6,500 lines of technical analysis, all prompts used, and a full process trace documenting what the AI got right and wrong — is on GitHub:apollo11-ai-walkthroug...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[On March 17, the Innovation Makers Alliance played an AI-generated fake newscast to an amphitheatre at Station F.[1] IMA is a consortium of the CIOs, CDOs, and innovation directors at three-quarter...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Updated on March 27th based on new public information).]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The King's New Datacenters]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[On February 11, 2025, at Station F in Paris, Emmanuel Macron announced that France had secured €109 billion in private investment for artificial intelligence. He compared the figure favorably to Am...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Monday, Bloomberg reported that JPMorgan launched a basket of credit default swaps on five hyperscalers — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle — tradeable in $25 million increments.[1] ...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On March 14, 2026, Elon Musk posted five words to X: “Terafab Project launches in 7 days.” The announcement described a $25 billion semiconductor fabrication facility targeting 2nm process technolo...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On March 16, Jensen Huang stood on the GTC stage in San Jose and showed the audience a map. Dozens of countries. More than 1 million Nvidia GPUs are deployed worldwide through the company's cloud p...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On February 2, 2026, Elon Musk published a blog post announcing what SpaceX called the largest corporate merger in history. SpaceX would acquire xAI — his artificial intelligence company — at a com...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On March 10, 2026, Yann LeCun's new company announced a $1.03 billion funding round at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.[1] The company had twelve employees, no product, and no revenue. Its techn...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In July 2025, I published a piece arguing that the Model Context Protocol systematically overlooked four decades of hard-won lessons from distributed systems.[1] The piece made specific claims. MCP...]]></description>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[In March 2024, I explained to my YouTube audience how LLM inference actually works.[1] Two distinct phases, I said. Prefill — the phase where the model processes your entire prompt in parallel, fil...]]></description>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On August 8, 2023, Jensen Huang stood on stage at SIGGRAPH and asked a question.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On the morning of March 10, 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union convened its fifteen-judge Grand Chamber in Luxembourg to hear oral arguments in Like Company v. Google — the first case t...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
      <category>Article</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Oracle has produced the most leveraged cloud infrastructure transformation on record: $125 billion in debt, $553 billion in contractual commitments, 57 percent of which are concentrated in a single...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mistral Succeeded. France's AI Strategy Didn't.]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the winter of 1972, in a cellar in Châtenay-Malabry, a suburb south of Paris, an engineer named François Gernelle worked eighteen-hour days to meet a deadline from the Institut National de Reche...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[You can check in. But can you ever leave? OpenAI's $110 billion round and the lock-in dynamics binding OpenAI, Amazon, Nvidia, Oracle, Microsoft, and Meta into a self-recycling AI infrastructure boom.]]></description>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On March 1, 2026, Iranian drones struck three AWS data centers in the Gulf, knocking Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank offline for two days and degrading 109 cloud services across the UAE and Bahrain.[1] F...]]></description>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On February 12, 2026, Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong stood before Parliament and made the case for his country as a global AI leader. A new National AI Council, chaired by Wong himself. T..]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Few people in the history of computing have earned the right to be skeptical more than Donald Knuth. If you spent long hours withThe Art of Computer Programming— the multi-volume work that Dijkstra...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On January 15, 2026, South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT announced the results of the first elimination round in what the Korean press had taken to calling the AI Hunger Games.[1] Five govern..]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[At 4:30 in the morning Pacific time on March 1, 2026, Amazon Web Services posted an incident report for its ME-CENTRAL-1 region in the United Arab Emirates. The language was remarkable — not for wh...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On March 1, 2026, an unidentified object (ahem) struck an AWS availability zone — a cluster of data centers — in the United Arab Emirates, setting it on fire. The fire department cut power. A secon...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Friday morning, Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI — $15 billion upfront, another $35 billion conditional on milestones that reportedly include an IPO or the achievement of AGI ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Published before market open on February 27.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Two Sovereign Clouds, One Legal Wall]]></title>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On June 10, 2025, a Tuesday morning in the French Senate, Anton Carniaux sat under oath. Carniaux, Microsoft France'sdirecteur des affaires publiques et juridiques, had been summoned before thecomm..]]></description>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On January 21, 2025, Masayoshi Son stood next to Donald Trump in the White House, announcing Stargate — a $500 billion AI infrastructure project, the largest in history [1]. Son would serve as chai...]]></description>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thirteen months ago, distillation was an accusation without forensics. Today, Anthropic published the forensic receipts, naming DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax as running "industrial-scale campa...]]></description>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[India produces 9.2% of the world's AI research papers [7]. It ranks second globally in AI skill penetration [7]. Indian-origin executives run Alphabet, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Palo Alto Networks, an..]]></description>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On February 11, 2026, Moody's awarded its first-ever Aaa rating to a data center securitization — an $830 million deal from Compass Datacenters backed by six hyperscale facilities with 100% lease r..]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The European Parliament just disabled built-in AI features on all lawmakers' and staff devices — tablets, phones, the works. Writing assistants, text summarizers, virtual assistants: all gone.]]></description>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[In late August 2025, Magnetar Capital, a hedge fund based in Evanston, Illinois, managing approximately $26 billion in total assets [1], began taking an unusual position in its largest position. If...]]></description>
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      <author>julien@julien.org (Julien Simon)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Sunday, Sam Altman announced that Peter Steinberger, creator of the viral open-source agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI to "drive the next generation of personal agents." [1] The project itself ...]]></description>
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